“I haven’t really performed like that in a while, so I think I was nervous just to see if I could physically make it through it because up until that point, I hadn’t really rehearsed the whole performance full out,” Timberlake admitted. “I was gassed.”

His nearly 16-minute set paid homage to both his past and present, and culminated with a greatly-anticipated *NSYNC reunion, which Timberlake helped organize. He personally reached out to all of his former band mates to put together the short-lived, but unforgettable moment.

“It felt like the 10-year high school reunion,” he said. “I called them up each individually and said, ‘Hey, what do you guys think about this? If we can pull it off?’ And you know, my pitch was, ‘It’s either going to be really good or really funny.'”

“I called Chris [Kirkpatrick] first and he’s like, ‘Yeah, man! Let me know what the other guys say!’ He was in, but…no one wanted to do it if one person was out and I think that speaks to, you know, the relationship that we have and how we think of the time that we did spend together,” Timberlake explained.